In this paper, a class of diffusion zero-attracting stochastic gradient algorithms with exponentiated error cost functions is put forward due to its good performance for sparse system identification. Distributed estimation algorithms based on the popular mean-square error criterion have poor behavior for sparse system identification with color noise. To overcome this drawback, a class of stochastic gradient least exponentiated (LE) algorithms with exponentiated error cost functions were proposed, which achieved a low steady-state compared with the least mean square (LMS) algorithm. However, those LE algorithms may suffer from performance deterioration in the spare system. For sparse system identification in the adaptive network, a polynomial variable scaling factor improved diffusion least sum of exponentials (PZA-VSIDLSE) algorithm and an lp-norm constraint diffusion least exponentiated square (LP-DLE2) algorithm are proposed in this work. Instead of using the l1-norm penalty, an lp-norm penalty and a polynomial zero-attractor are employed as a substitution in the cost functions of the LE algorithms. Then, we perform mean behavior model and mean square behavior modal of the LP-DLE2 algorithm with several common assumptions. Moreover, simulations in the context of distributed network sparse system identification show that the proposed algorithms have a low steady-state compared with the existing algorithms.

Using adaptive filtering to estimate the frequency of power systems has become a popular trend. In recent years, however, few studies have been performed on adaptive frequency estimations in non-stationary noise environments. In this paper, we propose the distributed complex inverse square root algorithm and distributed augmented complex inverse square root algorithm for the frequency estimation of power systems based on the widely linear model and the inverse square root cost function, where the function can restrain both positive and negative large errors, based on its symmetry. Moreover, the wireless sensor networks support monitoring and adaptation for the frequency estimation in the distributed networks, and the proposed approach can ensure good robustness of the balanced or unbalanced three-phase power system with the help of a local complex-value voltage signal generated by Clark’s transformation. In addition, the bound of step size is driven by the global vectors, and that low computation complexity do not hinder those performances. The results of several experiments demonstrate that our algorithms can effectively estimate the frequency in impulsive noise environments.